JEFFERSON, ADAMS, AND THE SAT’S NEW ADVERSITY FACTOR By Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker Today, May 23, 2019 Most discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that, somewhere around the next bend and soon to make itself apparent, is the right...
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Descuentos por aranceles en las universidades de los EEUU
Discount Rates Hit Record Highs For first time, rates for freshmen at private colleges top 50 percent. By Marjorie Valbrun May 10, 2019 A national study of college tuition discount rates has found that private colleges and universities offered incoming freshmen...
Mujeres economistas
Finance and economics Women in economics #EconomistsToo WASHINGTON, DC, March 23, 2019 A dispiriting survey—and our own investigations—demonstrated the poor treatment of female economists in America’s universities “Why is this an interesting question?” Éva Nagypál,...
Escándalo en admisión de universidades de élite en USA
ADMISSIONS & STUDENT AID Justice Dept. Charges Dozens in Admissions Bribery Scheme Involving Elite Colleges By Andy Thomason MARCH 12, 2019 The U.S. Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C. Dozens of people, from famous actors to college coaches and...
Una ola (más) de resentimiento frente a los docentes
Why Donald Trump Jr.’s ‘loser teachers’ comment was ‘a chilling moment’ for educators around the world By Valerie Strauss, February 16, 2019 © 1996-2019 The Washington Post You may recall that President Trump held a border wall rally in El Paso on Monday and that his...
Racionamiento de creditos estudiantiles en países seleccionados
View as Webpage Rationing Loans February 8th, 2019 - Alex Usher While student loans are cheaper (and hence more commonly used) than grants, they still cost money, both in terms of interest subsidies and in terms of loan losses through loan defaults. As a result,...
Créditos estudiantiles funcionan, Alex Usher
Loans Work February 5th, 2019 - Alex Usher If you spend any time looking at student aid research, you’ll be struck by how much empirical evidence there is on the effectiveness of grants (or, more broadly, “changes in net tuition”), and how little there is in terms...
Educación técnica superior en EEUU: desarrollos y desafíos
What Works in Career and Technical Education (CTE)? A Review of Evidence and Suggested Policy Direction FEBRUARY 4, 2019 • ANN HUFF STEVENS https://www.aspeninstitute.org/ Ann Huff Stevens, Deputy Director of the Center for Poverty Research, Professor of...
FTP en USA: un plan para renovar la educación de ciclo corto
Do community colleges need a land-grant acá By Hallie Busta Published Feb. 6, 2019 Dive Brief: Community colleges are in need of investment, and a performance-based federal funding program akin to the Morrill Act — which originally funded higher education for the...
Grupo Laureate: ajustes y proyecciones
BRIEF For-profit Laureate sells St. Augustine for $400M, holds onto Walden U By Ben Unglesbee, Feb. 7, 2019 Dive Brif For-profit college operator Laureate Education has completed a sale of its University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) school to the...
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Un ejercicio con IA y sus limites
An AI-informed discussion of research methods in digital learning Tony Bates, January 12, 2024 Each year I do a...
Harvard y MIT: IA aplicada al acceso y retención
After pioneering edX, Harvard and MIT tackle online access afresh With Axim, elite university duo looks to aid...
Educación por competencias en España
El pedagogo Javier Valle: “El profesorado se siente abandonado ante el cambio educativo competencial” La...
PISA: Consejos de A. Schleicher
Consejos del padre de PISA: los mejores profesores para los desfavorecidos, matemáticas menos superficiales o motivar...